Small worlds
Subtitle: method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory
By: edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R.N. DeCorse, and John Walton.
Contributors: Brooks, James, 1955-; DeCorse, Christopher R.; Walton, John, 1937-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781930618947
Subjects: Anthropology -- Miscellanea; History -- Miscellanea; Methodology
Genres: Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lived hegemonies and biographical fragments : microsteps toward a counterhistory of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Maddox; title: The hidden weight of the past : a microhistory of a failed social movement / Kathleen Blee; title: To write liberation : time, history, and hope in Yucatán / Paul K. Eiss; title: Varied pasts : history, oral tradition, and archaeology on the Mina Coast / Christopher R. N. DeCorse; title: Arson, social control, and popular justice in the American West : the uses of microhistory / John Walton; title: The floating island : anachronism and paradox in the lost colony / Michael Harkin; title: Biography as microhistory, photography as microhistory : documentary photographer Dorothea Lange as subject and agent of microhistory / Linda Gordon; title: "Above vulgar economy" : the intersection of historical archaeology and microhistory in writing archaeological biographies of two New England merchants / Mary C. Beaudry; title: What influences official information? : exploring aggregate microhistories of the Catasto of 1427 / Rebecca Jean Emigh; title: Anomalies, clues, and neglected transcripts : microhistory and representations of the Cuban sugar frontier, 1820-1860 / Dale Tomich; title: Seductions and betrayals : la frontera gauchesque, Argentine nationalism, and the predicaments of hybridity / James F. Brooks; title: Oral traditions and material things : constructing histories of native people in colonial settings / Kent G. Lightfoot.